Flow

The Flow Arts is a sub-category of circus arts involving “object manipulation”. A popular example of the Flow Arts is hula-hooping. What was once a fad of twirling a plastic circle around your waist is now a full body art form full of self-expression! Many people have taken this fun kids game and turned it into a practiced skill through which they manipulate the hoop around various parts of their body.

The Flow Arts as a whole involve so much more than hula hoops. Other Flow Arts props include poi, staff, fans, levi wand, veils, and the list goes on. New Flow Arts props are always evolving. The key detail to the flow arts is not the prop itself, but moving or flowing with a prop. Creating a flow often involves amental state of "being in the zone" in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed with feeling energized, focused, and joy for the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by complete absorption in what one does. Some turn this into a style of dance while others use the art of illusion. A description of the flow arts can be endless, and sometimes better seen than read.

The best part about the Flow Arts is that you make the relationship between you and your prop whatever you want it to be!